Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:
Superman mercilessly killing Zod at the end is just wrong though. Oh wait, wrong movie… Oh wait, no it’s not!!! Damn you Man of Steel haterz, damn you to the Phantom Zone! Remember your history! Never forget the atrocities of the 80’s!
What if I hate MoS for reasons other than the slaying of Zod?
It’s ambiguous but they are thrown down pits (what is it about the late seventies/eighties and caped guys causing pitfalls?) So he could survive any version. Indeed deleted material of them being arrested was included in the television cut suggesting that death was not the intended fate for the terrible trio. That’s a world away from a fist fight causing whole buildings to collapse and a neck snap.
I was kinda kidding, guys! I was only pointing out that the haterz jumped on Zod being killed as the whole entire reason they didn’t like MoS - “Superman doesn’t kill people” etc. Superman deliberately turning those villains human, making them essentially harmless to him, and then chucking them down into the icey pits anyway, an act which would kill most humans (except Chuck Norris) is probably a lot worse than deliberately breaking Zod’s neck because he was seconds away from vapourising some completely innocent bystanders. It’s not a very good argument at all (like the similar ones haterz use against TFA). There’s plenty of legitimate reasons to not like MoS (the city-wide destruction being one of them until it was addressed/retconned in BVS) but jumping on a popular criticwagon to down a film seems to be a growing trend that I find irksome.
I think I prefer the idea of Zod and the gang being led away in handcuffs at the end of Superman II though, that’s the ultimate indignity for a meglomaniac like him!